Miles Scott, dressed as Batkid, right, runs with Batman after saving a damsel in distress in San Francisco.

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“Batkid” aka 5-year-old leukemia patient Miles Scott, attracted over 10,000 people as he moved through the city of San Francisco Friday, fighting crime, capturing criminals and rescuing a damsel in distress.

Organized and executed by Make-A-Wish Foundation,the day of superheroism was all pretend, but it surely felt as good as the real thing to Batkid.

The city’s Police Chief, Greg Suhr, served as Scott’s master of ceremonies, having prerecorded a series of messages to help guide the superhero through the city, ultimately resulting in the capture of the Riddler and Penguin.

With the criminals safely in lockup, Scott was granted a chocolate key to the city and received a encouraging tweet from President Obama. The San Francisco Chronicle even received a surprise visit from Clark Kent, who penned a front page story about batkid saving the city.

Miles, who is in remission, was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 18 months old and ended treatments in June.

Suhr phoned Speakeasy at the close of the day’s festivities to speak about the pint-sized crime fighter and what it took to organize the event.

What messages did you record for batkid?

I pre-recorded all the phone calls and loaded them into one of the two Lamborghinis that Batkid was going to be in with Batman and my prerecorded messages moved their day along. I hammed it up saying “Holy smokes Batman, Great Caesar’s ghost, I’m lost only you can help find me,” and things like that. This was first mentioned to me three months ago and we just said yes to everything. I’m a seven days a week person anyways.

Over 10,000 people showed up. That’s a lot for a five year old to take in.

He’s a cool little guy. He got a rise out of the crowd. When I met him, he was like, “watch this,” and raised his fist and kind of rocked a nod to me. It was very cool. Afterwards, they were showing him on the jumbotron and on the news and he was like, “no, it’s ok, I was there.” He didn’t need to watch it. He should have been James Bond, not Batkid.

How much money did this cost the city?

It just cost us our time. We told the guys prior that they were not going to make overtime, the ones who chose to hang around it was more of having your heart in the right place. Obviously it was necessary to put police resources into it, that happens all over major cities all the time, but this was not publicly funded.

Will you be phoning Batkid again?

You never know. That’s how cool it is to have Batkid, if you need him, you never know, he won’t be far away.